Of course we’re not talkin’ about a literal resurrection, but the resurrection of Tom Petty’s music, his voice, his life-force as it were, via his music, all via the box set An American Treasure, released almost a year to the day since his death. An American Treasure is a different kind of box set, with…
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Even More Songs of Spookiness
Last year I collected some songs of spookiness here for Halloween, and a few years before that put together a Halloween compilation “The Moon Hangs in Black.” I’m not a rabid Halloween fan or anything, but I do like collecting songs around a theme. And Halloween is an especially fun theme to work with! The…
Petty Days
Tom Petty’s death made more of an impact on me than most of the many musician deaths there’ve been over the last couple of years. Partly because it was so unexpected and out of the blue, but also because, in a way, it was like a living connection to my teenage years was suddenly gone….
Towed Out of the Ditch: Tom Petty’s “Trailer”
Sometimes lost songs find their way back, even if it takes years. The summer of 1985 was the summer of Tom Petty for me – Southern Accents was released that year and you really couldn’t escape it, not that I wanted to. It set me on a path to buying all his older albums (on…
Sound City: A Dump, A Palace
What do Bill Cosby, cult leader Charles Manson, and daredevil motorcyclist Evel Knievel all have in common? It sounds like the preamble to a particularly clever joke (or maybe just a particularly bad joke). The answer, however, is that they all recorded songs in a not-much-to-look-at, often-trashed studio called Sound City. Classic albums by artists…
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